new world vulture

Questions about new world vulture

What does new world vulture mean?

new world vulture means "large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures".

What is another word for new world vulture?

Close synonyms include cathartid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is new world vulture a common word?

new world vulture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.